What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.